twentieth century and beyond

Seeking chapters about European films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on European films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema): 

Seeking chapters about Asian films featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents, including chapters devoted to Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Mainland China, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. We especially welcome the following high-priority chapters on Asian films for the handbook's Part II (National Overviews of Trans Cinema): 

The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Seeking additional chapters for the book Indian Trans Cinema: Film, Television, and Web Series. This collection showcases the breadth of languages and regional differences within Indian cinema that explores transgender themes. We already have over a dozen confirmed chapters. Proposals are due May 1, 2025. Chapters may focus on a single film or multiple films.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism 
A Transdisciplinary Conference

July 4-5, 2025 

July 4: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 5: Fully online

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/ecopoetics-2025/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

Bloomsbury has shown interest in publishing this project.

Editors:

Dr. Shubhanku Kochar shubhankukochar@outlook.com

Dr. Tanupriya tanupriya.2493@gmail.com 

CFP: “The Companies We Keep – Figurations, Narratives, and Practices of Co-Living in Common Spaces in 21st-Century British and Anglophone Literatures”

Workshop, 31. October – 1. November 2025, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Ben Highmore (University of Sussex)

“Violence is man recreating himself,” psychiatrist and critic Frantz Franon wrote in 1961 in The Wretched of the Earth as he witnessed postcolonial destruction in the wake of the Algerian War. The violence he underscored in his seminal work was not the centuries-long decimation of the land and culture of the oppressed, but rather the revolution of the colonized against hegemony to reclaim a national and racial identity.

We are seeking proposals for papers that explore Octavia E. Butler’s oeuvre for a special session at the PAMLA 2025 Conference in San Francisco. 

The session format is a seminar: Four to seven participants will share their paper ahead of time and then present a brief (five to seven minute) summary of their paper during the seminar, allowing time for an extended question and discussion period.

All submissions are welcome, but because Butler’s literature evidently lives in the past, present, and future—within the fictional worlds she builds and in our world as her readers—we are particularly interested in papers that engage with her work in relation to the 2025 PAMLA conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”

2025 Online Summer Workshop: Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

13 June 2025 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

Transnational and Postnational Historical Fictions

“Confinement and Freedom”

Call for Papers

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025

“Poetry and Data,” A Call for Papers for a Panel at 

Call for Papers

“Living in a Material World”: The 1980s in Popular Culture

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1980s in popular culture to be held 26-27 November 2026.

The 1980s was the decade of excess, technological innovation, and political upheaval. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1980s and how the 1980s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.